What is it? Game 29

• jurgen
  July 12th, 2007 at 4:26 am

  dorsel,for hitting corn.

• druidalceta
  July 12th, 2007 at 4:29 am

  thats for separate the wheat from the plant when this is dry

  first cut all the plants and put togheter, after a group of people with thats strike the plants and separate the the wheat

  sorry for my english

• Alister Reid
  July 12th, 2007 at 4:53 am

  A flail for walnut trees .

• frenki
  July 12th, 2007 at 5:51 am

  wheat-whacker. used for separating seeds from from plant.

• george
  July 12th, 2007 at 6:12 am

  A device for threshing grain.

• chuk
  July 12th, 2007 at 6:15 am

  5th ninja turtle’s weapon, the one they never told you about. Or a rice flail.

• pol x
  July 12th, 2007 at 6:27 am

  grain flail.

• leonardo
  July 12th, 2007 at 6:31 am

  Nunchaku for ninja’s born with one arm shorter than the other??

• Mark
  July 12th, 2007 at 6:34 am

  Wheat flail

• fine
  July 12th, 2007 at 6:38 am

  A flail.

• Tyler
  July 12th, 2007 at 6:41 am

  It’s a rubber band gun. Poorly made, as there is no trigger.

• DemonioFlatline
  July 12th, 2007 at 6:44 am

  I think is some kind of scale (weighing apparatus)

• algonkin
  July 12th, 2007 at 6:45 am

  I think it’s a whacker for dusty carpets

• Ian
  July 12th, 2007 at 7:00 am

  Anyone familiar with oriental military history will be aware that the nunchaku is believed to have derived from rice flails and used by untrained militias, so in principle at least, it could be both.

• jima-san!
  July 12th, 2007 at 7:18 am

  Probably a modified nunchaku, for longer reach…

• Andy
  July 12th, 2007 at 7:25 am

  Convenience device for flaggelent monkish orders - allows you to hit yourself on the back, only harder and lower down.

• amanda
  July 12th, 2007 at 7:39 am

  It’s obviously for thwacking giant badgers.

• sandra
  July 12th, 2007 at 8:07 am

  Anyone who has read Farmer Boy of the Little House on the Prarie series knows this is for threshing wheat.

• МАРКА
  July 12th, 2007 at 8:32 am

  ЦЕП ПШЕНИЦЫ

• gail
  July 12th, 2007 at 8:34 am

  flail, for wheat

• DM
  July 12th, 2007 at 8:48 am

  A grain flail

• Tere
  July 12th, 2007 at 9:18 am

  I see everybody knows it. In León, Spain, we call it “mayal”. The act of hitting the corn, to separate it from the plant, it’s named “mayar”.
  very good blog!

• Brian
  July 12th, 2007 at 9:40 am

  Looks like a grain threshing flail to me.

• Randall
  July 12th, 2007 at 9:45 am

  This is a Benjoul, an Amicinniarissan symbol of temporal authority. The Amicinna were a society discovered living on the coast of Peru who fervently did not believe in time. There culture resolved around the ‘here and now’ mode of existence and it is said they had a profound effect on young Einstein during his missionary trips to South America. The temporal authority was the chosen person who told everyone when to do things, such as getting up or eating lunch. As part of their beliefs, he was strictly ignored. Temporal Authoritys usually committed suicide within a few years, so only unpopular tribe members or criminals were chosen for the jobs. The small collection of tribes were wiped out to a person in 1957 by unusually high tides.

• Rhea
  July 12th, 2007 at 10:18 am

  It’s an early nutcracker. It didn’t work too good, from the looks of it.

• Alasdair
  July 12th, 2007 at 11:50 am

  Most definitely a early nutcracker, that didn’t work very well.

• fine
  July 12th, 2007 at 12:43 pm

  Cep do grochu

• Solo
  July 12th, 2007 at 5:13 pm

  It’s obviously a street lamp, but you can use it to beat the chaff from the grain.

• David
  July 12th, 2007 at 5:54 pm

  for separating grain from the wheat plant by beating the hell outta it

• Miss Cellania
  July 12th, 2007 at 7:36 pm

  That’s an instrument of torture if I ever saw one!

• Cate
  July 12th, 2007 at 11:25 pm

  I don’t think it’s for a grain; I think it’s for flax. After you rett (let rot) the flax, you need to break it into fibers. I think this tool was used for that purpose.

• Eric
  July 12th, 2007 at 11:56 pm

  It’s a wheat flail, used to thresh grain (seconding or thirding a couple of the other answers above).

  It has also been used as a weapon in various cultures across the world. In East Asian martial arts, it’s referred to as a “two-sectional staff.” In Chinese martial arts, the two sections can either be varying lengths, like the staff pictured, while the Okinawan nunchaku often has the two segments be shorter, and of equal length.

• Ali S.
  July 13th, 2007 at 9:03 am

  Wheat flail! Wait…everyone else has gotten this…awww.

• tim
  July 16th, 2007 at 1:51 pm

  It is a ballot box. A way of voting as in the loser being “blackballed”.

  I win.

• Alex
  July 16th, 2007 at 2:28 pm

  What planet are you from, tim?

Want your own avatar? Get one for free at Gravatar!